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We study dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters contaminated by interlopers and show that a modern machine learning (ML) algorithm can predict masses by better than a factor of two compared to a standard scaling relation approach.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , D. J. Sutherland , S. Fromenteau , B. Poczos , J. Schneider

We present a simulation-based inference framework using a convolutional neural network to infer dynamical masses of galaxy clusters from their observed 3D projected phase-space distribution, which consists of the projected galaxy positions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak , Nikki Arendse

We demonstrate the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to mitigate systematics in the virial scaling relation and produce dynamical mass estimates of galaxy clusters with remarkably low bias and scatter. We present two models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Matthew Ho , Markus Michael Rau , Michelle Ntampaka , Arya Farahi , Hy Trac , Barnabas Poczos

We present a set-based machine learning framework that infers posterior distributions of galaxy cluster masses from projected galaxy dynamics. Our model combines Deep Sets and conditional normalizing flows to incorporate both positional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bonny Y. Wang , Leander Thiele

Precise determination of galaxy cluster masses is crucial for establishing reliable mass-observable scaling relations in cluster cosmology. We employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to estimate galaxy cluster masses from radially sampled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Elena Rasia , Gabriel W. Pratt , Daniel de Andres , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Weiguang Cui

We present a machine-learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses from Chandra mock images. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a deep machine learning tool commonly used in image recognition tasks. The CNN is trained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 M. Ntampaka , J. ZuHone , D. Eisenstein , D. Nagai , A. Vikhlinin , L. Hernquist , F. Marinacci , D. Nelson , R. Pakmor , A. Pillepich , P. Torrey , M. Vogelsberger

The aim of this paper is to study the efficiency of different approaches to interloper treatment in dynamical modelling of galaxy clusters. Using cosmological N-body simulation of standard LCDM model, we select 10 massive dark matter haloes…

We present a modern machine learning approach for cluster dynamical mass measurements that is a factor of two improvement over using a conventional scaling relation. Different methods are tested against a mock cluster catalog constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Michelle Ntampaka , Hy Trac , Danica J. Sutherland , Nicholas Battaglia , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider

We present a new method by which the total masses of galaxies including dark matter can be estimated from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems (GCSs). In the proposed method, we apply the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rajvir Kaur , Kenji Bekki , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

We investigate the ability of machine learning to infer the virial mass ($M_{\rm vir}$) and the scale radius ($r_{\rm s}$) of galaxy clusters from their observables. Using the Uchuu--UniverseMachine galaxy catalog at $z=0.093$, we generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hirobumi Tominaga , Asuka Nakamura , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Mohamed H. Abdullah

Velocity dispersions have been employed as a method to measure masses of clusters. To complement this conventional method, we explore the possibility of constraining cluster masses from the stacked phase space distribution of galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Akinari Hamabata , Masamune Oguri , Takahiro Nishimichi

Determining the dynamical mass profiles of dispersion-supported galaxies is particularly challenging due to projection effects and the unknown shape of their velocity anisotropy profile. Our goal is to develop a machine learning algorithm…

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been successfully employed in Astronomy for analyzing and interpreting the data collected from various surveys. The need for new robust and efficient data analysis tools in Astronomy is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-12 Muhammad Haider Abbas

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

Clusters of galaxies mass can be inferred by indirect observations, see X-ray band, Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect signal or optical. Unfortunately, all of them are affected by some bias. Alternatively, we provide an independent estimation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Florian Ruppin , Marco De Petris , Gustavo Yepes , Ichraf Lahouli , Gianmarco Aversano , Romain Dupuis , Mahmoud Jarraya

We present a technique for estimating the mass in the outskirts of galaxy clusters where the usual assumption of dynamical equilibrium is not valid. The method assumes that clusters form through hierarchical clustering and requires only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antonaldo Diaferio

We present a new approach for quantifying the abundance of galaxy clusters and constraining cosmological parameters using dynamical measurements. In the standard method, galaxy line-of-sight (LOS) velocities, $v$, or velocity dispersions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , J. Cisewski , L. C. Price

Ongoing and future spectroscopic surveys will measure numerous galaxy redshifts within tens of thousands of galaxy clusters. However, the sampling within these clusters will be low, 15 < N < 50 per cluster. With such data, it will be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Daniel Gifford , Nicholas Kern , Christopher J. Miller

Galaxy clusters are useful laboratories to investigate the evolution of the Universe, and accurately measuring their total masses allows us to constrain important cosmological parameters. However, estimating mass from observations that use…

The total masses of galaxy clusters characterize many aspects of astrophysics and the underlying cosmology. It is crucial to obtain reliable and accurate mass estimates for numerous galaxy clusters over a wide range of redshifts and mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Yuanyuan Su , Gongbo Liang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Nathan Jacobs , Yu Zhang
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